A 16\dfrac1216 2 1 16, start fraction, 1, divided by, 2, end fraction kilometer stretch of road needs repairs. Workers can rep
1 answer:
Answer:
The repair of the stretch of road will require weeks to finish.
Provided:
Length of the roads needing repair =
Length of the road workers can fix in a week =
To ascertain how many weeks it will take to mend this road stretch.
Solution:
Worker's road repair rate = per week.
Overall road length to repair =The time required to repair
of road by the workers can be calculated: ⇒
When dividing mixed numbers, we change them first into fractions.
To compute fraction division, we take the reciprocal of the divisor and substitute division with multiplication:
⇒
We revert the fraction back into a mixed number.
Thus, it will take weeks to complete the road repair task.
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